Welcome
Ahoy Mateys! I be talking like a pirate because I use the scientific programming language R to solve environmental problems, and I want to get you hooked on data science.
Here are few highlights of research I do on this site.
Route ships around whale hotspots
Some commentary about Frame 2.
For more see EcoQuants.
tags: #decision-framework #connectivity #whales
Site offshore wind energy
Siting Framework
Spatio-temporal tradeoff framework minimizing operational impacts on birds by siting OWED in space and episodic impacts on cetaceans by timing activities.
tags: #renewable-energy #decision-framework #whales #birds
Calculate Ocean Health Index globally
The Ocean Health Index quantifies sustainable use of the oceans globally.
Click on a country to freeze the flower plot to that country in the upper right and explore the country goal scores in the flower plot.
tags: #decision-framework #whales #birds
Predict whale & dolphin densities based on habitat
Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico | Duke MGEL
Citation: Roberts JJ, Best BD, Mannocci L, Fujioka E, Halpin PN, Palka DL, Garrison LP, Mullin KD, Cole TVN, Khan CB, McLellan WM, Pabst DA, Lockhart GG (2016) Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Reports 6: 22615. doi: 10.1038/srep22615. (Download)
tags: #sdg14 #decision-framework #whales #birds
Report on UN SDG14 Life in the Sea
The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 14 Life in the Sea
tags: #sdg14 #decision-framework #whales #birds
Monitor ship speeds to avoid whale strikes
Ship Cards speeding through whale strike advisories
tags: #reporting #whales #shipping
Resources
Here are a couple of the tools I use in R to create apps and generate reports.